The Best Quotes About Jesus Christ

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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. Mahatma Gandhi

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The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same. Billy Graham

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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade. Desiderius Erasmus

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I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also. John Bunyan

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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. Francis of Assisi

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You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God. Martin Luther

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No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you. Billy Graham

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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. Phillips Brooks

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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me. Denis Diderot

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added by keksimus_maximus Hitler did nothing wrong

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Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. Blaise Pascal

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There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place. Mother Teresa

The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding -- in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. Friedrich Nietzsche

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Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God. A. W. Tozer

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We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary. Alexander Maclaren

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Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: the Son, O how unlike the Father! First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it. William Blake

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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. Lydia Child

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Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him. Ernest Renan

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Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to any of these churches we talking bout he'd have to have it conked before anybody paid him any attention. The last thing niggers want to think about they God is that his hair kinky. Alice Walker

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I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment. Mother Teresa

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Let's just say that on this day, a million years ago, a dude was born who most of us think was magic. But others don't, and that's cool. But we're probably right. Amen.

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A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. Ezra Pound

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Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal? Ernest Renan

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A lot of people say to me, Why did you kill Christ? I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know. We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him. Lenny Bruce

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I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life. Henry van Dyke

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Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. John Lennon

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Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. Camille Paglia

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He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this? James Joyce

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Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. Simone Weil

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We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity. John Lennon

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The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership. Percy Bysshe Shelley

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